Converting Lat/long

[Dumpster]

I have some strange cordinances and don't know how to convert them. What i have is 49 deg 21 126 deg 16 How would i convert this over to someting i could use in mapsource. ie (N33 59.281 W112 21.721)

I am thinking the little circle in the upper side of 49 and 126 would mean deg.

Sure would appreciate some insight. Thanks

[+geognerd]

Looks like you only have degrees and minutes, thus N49 21.000 W126 16.000. If you had seconds, there'd be a value after the decimal, but you don't, so it's just a whole 21 minutes.

[+Old Sailor]

Try this...... http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/GeoCalc/GeoCalc.html

[+Hynr]

Looks like you only have degrees and minutes, thus N49 21.000 W126 16.000.  If you had seconds, there'd be a value after the decimal, but you don't, so it's just a whole 21 minutes.

Could also be

S49 21.000 W126 16.000

N49 21.000 E126 16.000

S49 21.000 E126 16.000

No formula is going to be able to tell that from your info. You'd need to figure that out from the context.

[Dumpster]

Maybe the information that i was given is only for general areas, and not for exact locations. I have never seen that type of format befor.